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networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
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networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior-to-coast roads are at least in part the result of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa’s interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018169
networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior-to-coast roads are at least in part the result of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114759
What determines citizens satisfaction with the constitution in operation ? We make two contributions towards an answer to this important policy question. First, we place stronger emphasis than existing studies on quantitative interpretations of the importance of different factors. We use...
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This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression Discontinuity design for close mayoral elections between female and male candidates in Brazil, we find that electing female mayors leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence....
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This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression Discontinuity design for close mayoral elections between female and male candidates in Brazil, we find that electing female mayors leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013263090
individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …
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using a dataset of 112 countries over the period 1970-2015. Our empirical analysis shows that democracy allows workers to … appropriate a higher share of national income. The evidence is robust to different indices of democracy and different periods of … recent global decline in the labor income share and current crisis of democracy. …
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This paper studies how heterogeneity in income dynamics affects the POUM hypothesis (the idea that poor people do not support high level of redistribution because they hope to be rich in the future). We consider a setting where individuals evaluate their expected future income using both their...
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